• Limonene@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    15 days ago

    zero stars, do not buy

    I bought this, and the lithium-ion battery started bulging on day 1. My boyfriend touched it and said it was really hot. I don’t think these batteries are safe.

    Also, Temu is a scam site.

    • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      14 days ago

      for sites like temu i a few rules rule: only buy things that they cannot possibly fuck up the making of, or things you don’t mind arriving broken, and never get electronics, most of them will be fire hazards

      thanks to those i’m very happy with my temu purchases, i have a neat sillicione thingy that goes around my kitchen tap so i don’t need to wipe water off the counter there, a metal rod that i can hang my spoons and spatchulas on, and a big mixing bowl with a plastic guard so my pancake batter stays in the bowl instead of decorating my walls. Oh and a set of calligraphy pens which is objectively poor quality but i like it either way

        • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          yeah i learnt about it recently :( it’s whack, i really liked being able to find some nice cheap trinkets. But yeah the trinkets are definitely not worth supporting slave labour (nothing is)

        • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          Yeah, the problem wasn’t that it’s cheap chinesium trash (which is the point of these sites), it’s the labor practices.

          • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            14 days ago

            True, you need to understand things like no you won’t get a 4TB SSD for 25€, but they have lots and lots of mechanical and electronics that are totally OK IMO. I even have a couple of training shorts from there and basically everything except the hot-end for my homebrew 3D printer comes from there (or Alibaba before that). For example.

            • Aniki 🌱🌿@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              3·
              14 days ago

              I get LOTS of bulk order microprocessors, LED strings, shit tons of random electronic crap for pennies compared to even Amazon. I don’t mind the wait.

          • piccolo@ani.socialEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Aliexpress isnt as bad… its basically exactly rhe same as amazon… but direct from china, and cuts bezos out of the picture…

  • wren@feddit.ukEnglish
    22·
    14 days ago

    I would genuinely buy a bra that needed charging if it did something useful (like phase cooling / some sort of refrigeration). Not from Temu though

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    14·
    14 days ago

    I unironically have to charge my back every 5 days. I do this by strapping on something that looks a bit like the love child of a fannypack[^1] and a WWE championship belt. I have a spinal cord stimulator implant for chronic lower back issues.

    I don’t know if they use SCS for upper back issues, or where they’d locate the battery if they did, but the idea of a charging pack built into a bra for this purpose doesn’t sound absurd.

    [^1] Bum bag, for you Brits